Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court has reversed decades of precedent on church-state separation.

A comparison of the two texts.

The leaked draft is now the law of the land.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

A slim majority upheld an injunction, kicking the can down the road.

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.

Outrage over the outrage is outrageous.

Is a contribution after an election different from one during an election?

We deserve better.

The highest court in the land issued a split decision on President Biden’s COVID policy.

Doing nothing is still a choice, and the legitimacy crisis is here, like it or not.

A few observations on Whole Woman’s Health, et al., Applicants v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, et al.

President Trump’s destruction of longstanding norms continues under his successor.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

The law and justice are frequently not the same thing.

A rather odd non-ruling during the non-session from America’s highest court.

How should we balance public health and fundamental rights?

Dissenters to a denied emergency appeal argue it is.

Two rulings greatly expand the ability to evade the law for on Free Exercise grounds.

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

A seemingly obvious result that isn’t.

A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.

A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.

The 6-3 opinion written by Justice Gorsuch and joined by Chief Justice Roberts defies conventional wisdom.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court heard a significant Second Amendment case, but it is unlikely to rule on the merits of the case.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held oral argument in a series of cases asking it to decide if existing civil rights laws cover discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Justice Ginsburg has some kind words for her two newest co-workers, perhaps to the surprise of many of Ginsburg’s own supporters.

The Supreme Court handed the President a victory last night, ruling that the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging his funding of the border wall did not have standing to challenge his diversion of Defense Department funds. This may only be a temporary victory, though.

Another court loss for Trump and his border wall.

A law professor reads too much into a cryptic concurrence.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

In a clear defeat for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Federal Government could not ask about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

President Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment has joined the liberal bloc on several cases.

The Supreme Court has struck down a provision of the Lanham Act barring approval of “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks as unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court ruled that a World War One memorial that had been on public grounds for 70 years can stay where it is.

The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the Virginia House of Delegates to overturn a Federal Court ruling that the state’s district lines constituted gerrymandering by race. But they didn’t rule on the merits of the appeal.

Justice Clarence Thomas is seemingly putting to rest any reports that he’s considering retiring in the near future.

Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.

The Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument in a case involving a World War I Memorial in the form of a cross on public land in Suburban Maryland.

A death penalty case from Alabama raises First Amendment issues that the Supreme Court chose to brush aside.

Critics on both the Left and the Right rightly see an injustice here but the US Supreme Court allowed it to happen.

Late last night, the Supreme Court blocked a Louisiana abortion law from going into effect, the first significant abortion rights ruling since Justice Kavanaugh took the bench.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that could make it easier for consumers to buy and ship wine and other adult beverages across state lines.

The Supreme Court appears reluctant to overturn a century of case law that established a significant exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause.

The Supreme Court appears ready to impose at least some limits on civil asset forfeiture at the state level.